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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Abdo,
Great work. I prefer the color. For me your B&W takes away beauty and interest and doesn't add to the compositional impact (why I usually go to B&W) of your image. Can't wait to see more from you. |
Jan 8th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Here is ISO 12800. Very close to my eye. What do you think? Beyond this, the blacks degrade and noise shows up. So the question becomes, is it worth it. If you can use a tripod the answer is probably not. |
Jan 8th |
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| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Abdo,
I'm assuming you have your D500 set to shoot in Raw L and in Adobe color space. If the noise level is not acceptable for you, you should maybe look at a D850. Your city scapes are beautiful. I would love to see the noise you're talking about. I shoot in low light hand held and the D500 works great for me. I started shooting color with Kodachrome with an ISO of 10... we've come a long way baby. If you zoom in you can find noise anywhere. I judge noise by checking at the magnification and viewing distance, i.e. and 8x10 at normal reading distance or a 16x20 thee feet back from a wall. I ran an ISO test for our camera club to check noise. Here is ISO 100 |
Jan 8th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Thanks... I do too. Photographed her over the course of several years and have shots of her eating crayfish and smaller swimmers. This is the best by far. I miss her. |
Jan 7th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Richard,
No magic. Just a LOT of practice and a love of doing it. The clone preview in PS has maked retouching go so much faster. Not as many undoes and redoes. |
Jan 7th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Jason,
Great idea, great post. I like the tighter crops myself. Especially if shown together. If you use the road at all, I would suggest a little cleanup. |
Jan 7th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
The fish was sharp to begin with. It was the out of focus reeds in the lower right hand site that I covered from the fix frame |
Jan 6th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
I usually make noise reduction and sharpening the last step, after resizing and before output. For me that makes all of the other cloning an optimizing smother. |
Jan 6th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
I don't use masks as a general rule. I clone from one frame to another. |
Jan 6th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Here is the fix it frame I used. |
Jan 6th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
You're right. On the fix it frame I'm focused on the reeds and not where the bird was... my bad. It looks like and easy fix. It was. Thanks. What do you think? |
Jan 6th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Yes,
Look into layer blending modes |
Jan 6th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Good tip, Thanks |
Jan 5th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Richard,
Nice idea. Great shot. Good in-camera work. Have you tried making a collage like this using individual frames as layers in PS? That gives you more control for placement and layer blending can do some fun things as well. Again... very nice work. I recommend a slighter crop to remove the distractions on the right. Your descending "Box Office" signs is an interesting use of thirds |
Jan 5th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Sunil,
Nice shot. I prefer the open shadows but would prefer a tighter crop. I can see the monk better and still get a feeling of the space. What do you think? If I were to use your crop I think I would clean up the trash some more. It's nice you took out the orange can, but there is other stuff scattered around |
Jan 5th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Here is the original with the same crop. Zoom in on each to see the difference. |
Jan 5th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Allen,
Did you shoot this in RAW?
Brenda, here is a shot (about 1/4 of the frame) that AI Clear
cleaned up nicely |
Jan 5th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Allen,
I see a nice balance between sky and the shadows to give compositional stability, but nothing much to focus on. Probably with a very long lens you could, as Brenda suggested, make the mountains a bigger part of the background, juxtaposing vertical mountains and flat grass.
I find that "Topaz IA Clear" does a good job in situations like this. It's a bit expensive, $45 or so but there is a 30 day free trial. There are lots of other Topaz fiddles as well... I love it. IA Clear helps with the sky but the image is not really sharp enough to see the full effect. |
Jan 4th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
That was shot at 1/1000 of second at ISO 800 in bright sunlight. Don't be afraid to use high ISOs with you D500. I often shoot at 64,000 when necessary and get good results. Noise is easier for me to deal with than camera shake. Having a heavy lens actually helps me. I hold the mounting bracket on the lens with my left hand and brace my elbow against my ribs. I use back button focus to keep moving subjects sharp. |
Jan 4th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Brenda,
I was following her, walking on my knees along the opposite bank (hand held shot... I can't do that with a tri or mono pod. The ground is too soft and things get tangled in the mud, reeds and long grass). When I saw her lunch swim by, I started a high speed burst. One of the best features of the D500. When I reviewed my shots I saw that I had moved into high reeds. I'm glad I wasn't paying attention to that or I would have missed the shot. All I did was move a foot or two back to my left and took a clean shot of the opposite bank, giving me good cloning material. I covered the brown and light green leaves around the beak and fish tail with appropriate nearby material to separate them from the back ground. She flipped the fish in the air (between exposures)and swallowed it. I live just outside Washington, D.C. in Silver Spring MD. |
Jan 4th |
 |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Jason,
I couldn't figure out how to easily clean up the reflection, but I did look at it cropped that way and I agree it distracted from the action. |
Jan 4th |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Brenda,
Good work. I like it much better |
Jan 3rd |
| 78 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
That is a problem when shooting something that has been photographed thousands of times from the same POV. The filtered image is more interesting to look at but I find myself looking at and thinking about the effect of the filter and not the original subject. I have just started working with Topaz Studio Pro myself and am beginning to widen my view of the use of filters that degrade the quality of the image. Turner painted London scenes so I chose "Turner Sunset I" and used it at about half strength and then added vignetting in LR. Just an idea. Yours has more going on but I don't like the idea of a distressed image as if the neg or prints weren't properly cared for. And I like the idea of making it Turner like. Thanks I've just started thinking about this stuff myself. |
Jan 2nd |
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